Sessions Cracks Down on Racism Against Whites

[L. Coyote]

The Daily Show with Trevor Noah -- Aug 2, 2017
After Jeff Sessions announced that the Justice Department will challenge affirmative action, Jordan Klepper and Roy Wood Jr. weigh in on the discrimination of white people.

[Gothmog]

1. There is no racism against white people

[heckles65]

2. 25 years ago or so,

I worked in a law office in central Pennsylvania. There was a white paralegal there, who said he wanted to be a state trooper, but as he claimed, he was "the wrong color that year."

This guy claimed to be a black belt, BTW; I believe that he was.

Now since then I've driven thousands of miles in Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, New York, VT, NH, other places. And in all that time, I have never seen a nonwhite, non-male state trooper with my own eyes. I admit I talked to a black WV state trooper on the phone once.

What's my point? If affirmative action gave nonwhites the big advantage white think they get, I would have seen more of them. Is this other readers' experience?

"Blame affirmative action" is the cry of losers.

[L. Coyote]

3. This isn't personal anecdote:

The New Racial Makeup of U.S. Police Departments
By Victoria Bekiempis On 5/14/15

........... The percentage of minority police officers in U.S. local law enforcement agencies almost doubled between 1987 and 2013, according to new U.S. government data. ........

..... there are more than 12,000 local police departments in the U.S. These agencies employ some 605,000 full-time staffers, approximately 477,000 of which are sworn officers (“those with general arrest powers,” per the BJS). The non-sworn staffers comprise some 128,000 of these employees.

What groups account for the increase in minority police officers? Sixty percent of the increase between 2007 and 2013 stems from Hispanics and Latinos, and the estimated 12 percent of officers who were Hispanic or Latino in 2013 is more than twice the some 5 percent in 1987. Twelve percent of local police officers were black in 2013, up from 9 percent in 1987. Asian, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, American Indian or Alaska Native persons comprised 3 percent of local police officers in 2013 and 2007, but that’s “about four times higher than in 1987,” according to the BJS. As far as trends go, “in general, departments in larger jurisdictions were more diverse than those in smaller ones,” a summary of the study states.

There are also more females on the force across the U.S. In 2013, approximately 58,000 females worked as local police officers, whereas only 27,000 did so in 1987. ........